Re:How I Teach Gerrymandering
by nshepperd on Monday October 12, 2015 @11:05AM
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FPTP is unequivocally broken.
Voting for "who you want to win, period" doesn't help in FPTP. Then you just get vote splitting - the majority of the population would prefer either of parties A and B to party C, but they have different favourites, so A and B each get 30% of the vote, while C gets 40%. So the party most of the population hates wins.
Tactical voting is IMO preferable to this outcome.
Voting for "who you want to win, period" doesn't help in FPTP. Then you just get vote splitting - the majority of the population would prefer either of parties A and B to party C, but they have different favourites, so A and B each get 30% of the vote, while C gets 40%. So the party most of the population hates wins.
Tactical voting is IMO preferable to this outcome.